How to insert variables into Java code from a GUI textbox/submit? - java

This is my first Java project and I'm not sure where to look/what to search for for information on this question.
I've built Java code in Eclipse using Selenium WebDriver that opens a product page, adds a product to cart, and completes the checkout process automatically. Is it possible to create a GUI with textbox submissions that would insert variables into my already-created code? For example, I'd like to create a GUI that would update my code with the submitted size rather than having to hard-code '6.5' every time as seen in the code below.
wd.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#class='size-options-buttons']/ul//a[#title='6.5']")).click();
Any information or guidance on what to research would be greatly appreciated!

I wouldn't think you would want/need to create a GUI to do this. You should just create a variable that contains the value you want used in your searches and then you can update that value any time you want in only one place.
String title = "6.5";
wd.findElement(By.xpath("//div[#class='size-options-buttons']/ul//a[#title='" + title + "']")).click();
If you wanted, you could read this and other values from a text file, XML, etc.

This is achievable with Java, but its not a part of Selenium as such. You can explore Java GUI frameworks such as AWT, Swing etc, using which you can create your GUI. You can add a text box and button in your UI. Upon click of the button, you can run your Selenium code, where it can fetch the value you entered in the text box as a variable as pass it on to your script.
It all depends on how far you want to take this. You can create very basic UIs with say JavaScript, VBScript as well. These would give you the basic functionality of a text box and button.
You can use an excel sheet also, where you can set these values and pass it on to your script.

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Display a scrolling message that can be updates by another webpage

I'm looking for a solution to this and I have searched the web for an answer with nothing. I need a scrolling message on my webpage that can be updated by the same website but on a different page. (e.g www.webpage.com <-- has the scrolling message on it, www.webpage.com/settings <-- has a form in which you can change/update the scrolling message)
I'm pretty sure this is achievable with Java, but my knowledge on Java is slim and all my efforts have come to a fail. I have managed to get a scrolling message on my webpage and I'm sure if I could read a text file (with the message in) then assign that to a 'var', I could make that scroll but I don't know how to do that.
If you know a completely different method of doing this I am happy to change mine.
Thanks in advance,
Tom.
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It depends on how fast you want to update the scrolling text how you want to do this. I would say save the text to a .txt or database from settings, and then have your page get it.
You can then use php to read the value from the .txt file or database to display it on your website.
If you want it to be extremely up to date you can let javasript call a little .php file that reads the file and gives you the content.
To make your text scroll you don't really need anything other than html, like so:
<marquee behavior="scroll" direction="left">Your scrolling text goes here</marquee>
You can read more about that here: http://www.quackit.com/html/codes/scrolling_text.cfm

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Hello im making a program and using TableModel. I have 6 column filed with string's. I want the sixth column string make it look like URL. When i mean look like URL , i mean turn it into blue and be underlined. Is it possible to do that?
You need to write custom TableCellRenderer for your jtable. See this link.This may be helpful for you.
Sun had a very good tutorial (http://docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/uiswing/components/table.html#modelchange) on cerating jtable. just go through it before you start. hope this tutorial will help you.
But below is my suggestion.
("<html><b><u>link</u></html>");
<html><b>bold</b></html>
a similar kind of thing
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I'm pretty sure you can simply create a string containing
<html>...</html>
and it will work. Just code your link inside the html tags as you would in html. You'll just have to add extra code if you want it to appear blue. I think:
<font color='blue'>
would do it

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I know this question has been asked before on S.O. and other websites but I haven't found a definite answer -- most of them say its not easily done but I wanted to make sure that was the final verdict.
Here's my situation:
I'm testing a website that is using Highcharts (http://www.highcharts.com) using Selenium WebDriver (Java).
I basically want to grab the information that is displayed in a small tooltip pop-up that appears when you hover your mouse over each datapoint on the Highchart's line graph.
Looking at the web page's HTML code, I noticed there is <g class="highcharts-tooltip".... I also noticed that, as you move your mouse, the (X,Y) values in ...transform="translate(X,Y)"> change, which then changes the information displayed in the tool tip.
Knowing this, my approach would be to somehow grab all the (X,Y) values and plug them into the transform fields and grab the tooltip data. But I don't know how to programmatically grab all the (X,Y) values through Selenium.
Has anyone tackles this issue in the past or has a better way to grab the necessary information?
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https://github.com/Ardesco/Powder-Monkey/tree/master/src/main/java/com/lazerycode/selenium/graphs
It's quite hard to provide a generic library that deals with HighCharts as the customisation options on the individual charts can modify the SVG markup quite a bit. Hopefully the above will help to a degree.
As I do more it will be updated.
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I've got an assignment in a class about user interfaces and usability testing. I have to do something that I'm sure I can figure out how to do programatically, but I have no experience with swing so I have no idea what components to use to do the job. My background is in C# so I'm fumbling at times trying to find the right component to use in NetBeans.
Based on the description below, can anybody recommend what kind of text field will do the job? I was thinking jFormattedTextField (based on the name) but I can't seem to figure it out.
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